# ID this 50-year-old children's book?

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**Created:** [August 27, 2017, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-50-year-old-childrens-book/794892 "2017-08-27T23:45:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\
**Post date:** [August 27, 2017, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-50-year-old-childrens-book/794892/1 "2017-08-27T23:45:14Z")

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There’s an ABC book I want to track down from my childhood. Here’s what I remember:

An insect–a fly or an ant, not much larger than life sized–is leaving dotted-line trails across the page as it wanders from one piece of food to another. The pages have a LOT of white space. It isn’t The Very Hungry Caterpillar, but may have influenced it. The artist had a very exotic Italian name. Does this ring any bells for anyone?

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**Author:** ![Lasciel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e79b87/32.png) [@Lasciel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lasciel)\
**Post date:** [August 28, 2017, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-50-year-old-childrens-book/794892/2 "2017-08-28T00:26:55Z")

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Bruno Munari’s ABC has a fly that goes wandering through the book leaving a squiggly trail, and was originally published in 1960.

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**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\
**Post date:** [August 28, 2017, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-50-year-old-childrens-book/794892/3 "2017-08-28T02:09:43Z")

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That’s the one, thanks!